ancientart:By the late 6th century BC, black-figure artists had become so masterful in their work th
ancientart:By the late 6th century BC, black-figure artists had become so masterful in their work that they were successfully able to create compositions with complex spatial relationships, with large numbers of figures in action. As one might expect, the ideal subject for this was battle scenes: one such example is shown above, on the obverse of the work, depicting the the Gigantomachy (battle of gods and giants). As the MET state below, the scene on the reverse is handled equally sophisticatedly.The presence of Athena identifies the combatants here. The arms and armor are those that contemporary Greek soldiers would have used.Dionysos and his followers on the reverse could, potentially, create similar din and confusion. Here, they appear sprightly but orderly. Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Archaic, ca. 540 BC.Courtesy of & can currently be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Via their online collections: 24.97.95. -- source link
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